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After the Null Subject Parameter: Acquisition of the Null-Overt Contrast in Spanish

Language Learning and Development, 2021
In many so-called canonical null subject languages, null and overt subject pronouns have contrasting referential preferences: null subjects tend to maintain reference to the preceding subject while overt pronominal subjects do not.
Hannah Forsythe, Daniel Greeson, C. Schmitt   +2 more
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Some remarks on the nature of strong pronouns in null-subject languages

1986
Gemma Rigau
exaly   +2 more sources

On the status of AgrS in some Null Subject Languages

, 2000
A. Akkal, A. Gonegai
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Null subjects and expletives in Romance and Germanic languages

1990
Hubert Haider
exaly   +2 more sources

On the properties of null subjects in sign languages: the case of French Sign Language (LSF)

The Linguistic Review, 2022
The typology of subject omission in simple declarative sentences ranges from languages that simply do not allow it like English and French to languages that allow it as long as a minimum degree of topicality is guaranteed like Chinese and Japanese.
A. Jaber, C. Donati, C. Geraci
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Parametric Variation: Control into finite clauses in partial null-subject languages

, 2009
T. Biberauer, A. Holmberg, I. Roberts, Michelle Sheehan   +3 more
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Agree, agreement dissociation and subject ellipsis. Towards a new characterization of the Null Subject Parameter

Probus: International Journal of Latin and Romance Linguistics
This paper offers a new characterization of the Null Subject Parameter (NSP). I contend that the NSP must be modeled referring to two main properties of the Agree/agreement systems: (i) presence/absence of abstract Agree, and (ii) presence/absence of ...
Andrés Saab
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Microvariation in null subject languages

2010
This chapter focuses on linguistic variation within Romance languages, providing a reinterpretation of Uriagereka’s (1988a; 1995a; 1995b) FP, a left peripheral projection whose role is parasitic on language specific morphological properties. In the context of Phase Theory, I suggest to recast FP as a property of phase heads boosting their left ...
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The Scandinavian languages and the null-subject parameter

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 1987
The null-subject parameter divides the Scandinavian languages in two groups. On the one hand, we find Icelandic and Faroese, which can have null-subjects with dummy interpretation in tensed clauses. On the other hand, we have Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish, where null-subjects are not found in tensed clauses.
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Qumran Hebrew as a null subject language

South African Journal of Linguistics, 1991
In die beginsel-en-parameterbenadering van Chomskyaanse generatiewe grammatika verteenwoordig die inisiele staat van taal 'n sisteem van aangebore formele beginsels met geassosieerde oop parameters...
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